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Extraction of Configurable and Reusable Microservices from Legacy Systems: An Exploratory Study

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Alessandro Garcia,

Wesley K. G. Assunção,

Rodrigo Bonifácio,

Leonardo P. Tizzei,

Thelma Elita ColanziAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '19: Proceedings of the 23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume A

Pages 26 - 31

https://doi.org/10.1145/3336294.3336319

Published: 09 September 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Microservices is an emerging industrial technique to promote better modularization and management of small and autonomous services. Microservice architecture is widely used to overcome the limitations of monolithic legacy systems, such as limited maintainability and reusability. Migration to a microservice architecture is increasingly becoming the focus of academic research. However, there is little knowledge on how microservices are extracted from legacy systems in practice. Among these limitations, there is a lack of understanding if variability is considered useful along the microservice extraction from a configurable system. In order to address this gap, we performed an exploratory study composed of two phases. Firstly, we conducted an online survey with 26 specialists that contributed to the migration of existing systems to a microservice architecture. Secondly, we performed individual interviews with seven survey participants. A subset of the participants (13 out of 26) dealt with systems with variability during the extraction, which stated that variability is a key criterion for structuring the microservices. Moreover, variability in the legacy system is usually implemented with simple mechanisms. Finally, initial evidence points out that microservices extraction can increase software customization.

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Extraction of Configurable and Reusable Microservices from Legacy Systems: An Exploratory Study
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
        Software product lines
    2. Software post-development issues
      1. Maintaining software
      2. Software evolution
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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SPLC '19: Proceedings of the 23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume A

September 2019

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ISBN:9781450371384

DOI:10.1145/3336294

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Thorsten Berger
Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Philippe Collet
Université Côte d'Azur, France
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Laurence Duchien
University Lille, France
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Thomas Fogdal
Danfoss Power Electronics A/S, Denmark
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Patrick Heymans
University of Namur, Belgium
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Timo Kehrer
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
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Jabier Martinez
Tecnalia, Spain
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Raúl Mazo
University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
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Leticia Montalvillo
IK4-IKERLAN Research Center, Spain
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Camille Salinesi
University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
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Xhevahire Tërnava
Sorbonne University, France
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Thomas Thüm
TU Braunschweig, Germany
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Tewfik Ziadi
Sorbonne University, France

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